The next chance to reach an agreement in the set-off dispute will be on Thursday at 8:30 a.m., according to Left Party group leader Samuel Gonzalez Westling.
The government side wants to present a proposal to us (in the opposition, editor's note), Gonzalez Westling tells TT.
The Social Democrats' group leader Lena Hallengren says after Wednesday's meeting that an agreement is still missing.
We need a system of compensation. But the least we can ask for is, of course, an apology from the Sweden Democrats — that they show they regret what they have done rather than signal they will do it again. Otherwise, it will be difficult to build a new system if there is no trust and confidence, Hallengren says.
Don't apologize.
SD's group leader Linda Lindberg still thinks there was a good atmosphere in the room.
Of course the group leaders want to express their disappointment and their reasoning, so we've put all that on the table, she says.
She has good hopes that they will be able to reach an agreement eventually. However, Lindberg does not believe that SD needs to apologize for its actions last week.
"I have nothing to apologize for," she says.
The Moderates' Mattias Karlsson also sounds optimistic.
I am quite confident that we will find an agreement, he says, but adds that it may take "another day or so."
"Has destroyed trust"
KD wants an equalization system involving all eight parties and for them to jointly "handle" the wild ones. However, group leader Camilla Brodin does not see this being resolved in the near future. She believes that the government parties can handle the situation through full presence, but says:
The hardest thing will be if an entire parliamentary group is struck by winter vomiting. What do we do then?
MP Annika Hirvonen does not believe that SD can be part of a set-off system right now.
"The basic prerequisites for any kind of set-off agreement are trust and confidence. All parties need to understand that SD's actions have fundamentally destroyed that trust," she says.
The row over the set-off system arose after SD sent in two members who had been set off to vote last week. Afterwards, several parties considered that the set-off system had been thrown out of play.
The set-off is an informal agreement between the parties that allows members to be absent from votes by having the opposing side cover for them.
